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Understanding Access Control

Admin Guide

Backends A backend is a Knocknoc-supported technology that can connect to and update ACLs. Using...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Juniper SRX with Allowlist

Admin Guide Backends

Background Knocknoc's Allowlist features provides a very powerful integration with firewalls tha...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Dave

SAML with Jumpcloud

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Where...

Updated 1 month ago by Lindsay Harvey

Server Installation

Admin Guide Setup Guides

For the admin who knows what they need and needs a fast way to get it, you can use this command t...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

ACLs

Admin Guide ACLS

An ACL in Knocknoc is an important mapping between a Backend and ACL name, which is an argument p...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

SAML

Admin Guide Authentication

SAML is an in-depth topic, however it represents the best option for securing users, and providin...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

HAProxy

Admin Guide Backends

HAProxy is a fantastic reverse proxy with a massive amount of features. Knocknoc has supported HA...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

SSH

Admin Guide Use Cases

SSH can be protected by Knocknoc in a number of ways: Local Linux firewall orchestration on th...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

Allowlist

Admin Guide Backends

The Allowlist backend makes a list of active IP address grants available via the Knocknoc server ...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

SAML with Keycloak

Admin Guide Authentication

Keycloak supports multiple authentication realms, so you must first select the appropriate realm ...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

Local Authentication

Admin Guide Authentication

Knocknoc supports local users, and many will find that the fastest way to evaluate if Knocknoc is...

Updated 1 month ago by Dave

SAML with OKTA

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Where...

Updated 1 month ago by Dylan

SAML with EntraID (Azure AD)

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Where...

Updated 1 month ago by Andy

SAML Principles and Terms

Admin Guide Authentication

An overview of SAML principles and key terms to help you effectively configure and manage SAML wi...

Updated 1 month ago by Dylan

LDAP

Admin Guide Authentication

Knocknoc can authenticate users to an LDAP server like Active Directory, by attempting to bind as...

Updated 1 month ago by Dave

v5.0.0

Changelog and Roadmap

Current version of Knocknoc server is: 5.0.62, released on Mon, 12 Feb 2024 Current version of k...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

v6.0.0

Changelog and Roadmap

We're excited to announce the release of Knocknoc 6, a major leap forward in attack surface reduc...

Updated 1 month ago by Andy

Script Any Arbitrary Backend

Admin Guide Backends

The "script" backend type is simply a script the agent can execute that takes a fixed set of argu...

Updated 2 months ago by Adam

IPsets with Shorewall

Admin Guide Backends

This is an example that lets you use Shorewall https://shorewall.org/index.html and IPsets to dyn...

Updated 3 months ago by Dave

VOIP

Admin Guide Use Cases

Having roaming users be able to use a handset from home, and protect your PABX from brute force a...

Updated 3 months ago by Dave